Period 6
This tycoon used horizontal integration to monopolize the oil industry.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
The leader of the settlement house movement who founded the Hull House which provided services to the urban poor and immigrants
Who is Jane Addams?
The term that characterized American foreign policy during the Cold War.
What is containment?
The law passed after 9/11 to increase security measures to root out terrorists.
What is the PATRIOT Act?
This US Supreme Court case legalized the legal doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The idea that the wealthy had earned their money and if someone was poor it was their own fault.
What is Social Darwinism?
The government program to end the Great Depression which created Social Security, the FDIC, and other programs
What is the New Deal?
LBJ's domestic program that sought to end poverty and discrimination and fund government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
What is the "Great Society"?
A whistleblower released these secret government documents about the Vietnam War to the press in order to uncover lies regarding the war.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
The Supreme Court decision that determined that the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during WWII was justified by national security threats.
What is Korematsu v. U.S.?
This term refers to the attempt at industrializing and modernizing the economy of the South after Reconstruction.
What is the "New South"?
The term coined by TR to describe journalists who exposed the ills of society to push for reform
What is a muckraker?
President Eisenhower sent the National Guard to Arkansas to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision to integrate schools to protect the group of students known by this name.
What is the Little Rock 9?
This economic policy pushed for low taxes and large cuts to government social programs in order to stimulate economic growth.
What is Reaganomics/trickle down economics?
This US Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no standing in court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This movement aimed to apply Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice, such as economic inequality, poverty, crime, child labor, etc.
What is the Social Gospel?
The movement of Black people to the North where they were seeking reprieve from Southern racism and better paying jobs in factories
What is the Great Migration?
This group of people were rebellious youth of the 50s, who rejected societal norms and went against many ideas of the generation before them.
Who were the Beatniks?
The war was fought between a coalition led by the United States to free the oil-rich nation of Kuwait from Iraqi invaders.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
This US Supreme Court decision stated that native tribes were distinct political entities with their own authority; later ignored by Andrew Jackson.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This law outlawed monopolies and allowed the government to break up companies that restricted free trade; not very successful
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The proclamation that the United States has the power to act as an international police power in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine)?
This terms refers to the relaxation of tensions between the US and USSR that occurred during Nixon's presidency.
What is détente?
Circumventing Congress's Boland Amendment, the Reagan administration found itself caught in this scandal when the press revealed that Reagan had used funds from illegally sold firearms to fund Central American right-wing rebels.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
This US Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?